315: Chapter 315 Seeing Luo Yan Again

Soon, Chen Hu's figure appeared in the royal capital of the Great Qin — Dragon City.

Among the four kingdoms of Great Yong, Great Qin, Great Xia, and Great Zhou, the Great Qin possessed the most formidable strength.

The current Emperor of Great Qin is named Zhao Zheng, a ruler of great ambition and talent.

He ascended the throne at the age of fifteen, and after thirty years of his governance,

the Great Qin, once the weakest of the four kingdoms, leaped to become the most powerful nation.

With a mere thought,

Chen Hu's Divine Sense instantly covered Dragon City.

Treasures, both ownerless and those belonging to others, appeared clearly in his mind.

Then, he transformed into a diligent little bee, flickering constantly between various treasure locations.

A quarter of an hour later, all these treasures had been collected into Chen Hu's void ring.

The total value of all the gold, silver, and jewelry amounted to 20 billion taels of silver; furthermore, other items were worth approximately 10 billion taels.

It was an absolute windfall.

After accepting the abdication, Chen Hu had reviewed the tax records of the Great Yong.

The taxes of the Great Yong were divided into silver taxes and grain taxes.

Three years ago, the Great Yong received a total of 1.5 billion taels in silver taxes and 300 million shi of grain.

Last year, the Great Yong received a total of 1.2 billion taels in silver taxes and 240 million shi of grain.

This year's tax collection has already been completed, yielding 900 million taels in silver taxes and 180 million shi of grain.

Therefore, the Great Yong's silver and grain tax revenues were declining at a rapid rate.

Yet, the gold, silver, and jewelry Chen Hu plundered from just two royal capitals were worth over 30 billion taels—if calculated based on the tax revenue from three years ago, it was equivalent to twenty years of the Great Yong's silver tax income.

One must know that there was still the royal capital of the Great Zhou waiting for him to plunder.

The next moment, Chen Hu's figure vanished from Dragon City.

Reappearing, he had already arrived at the royal capital of the Great Zhou — Divine Capital.

The Great Zhou is somewhat unique.

Because their emperors have always been women.

It is said that the royal Family of the Great Zhou possesses a special Bloodline, which is passed down only to women and not to men.

It is precisely because of this Bloodline that the strength of every generation's Empress can reach the Late Stage of Qi Refining.

The Empress of this generation is named Ji Wanyue; at only twenty-eight years old, her cultivation has already reached the Middle Stage of Qi Refining.

Reaching the Late Stage of Qi Refining before the age of thirty is not a difficult task for her.

As for where Chen Hu obtained this information, it was naturally from the intelligence gathered by the Great Yong regarding the other three kingdoms.

His Divine Sense swept across.

The treasure locations within the Divine Capital were reflected in Chen Hu's mind.

Next, he continuously utilized Near and Far to enter the treasure locations and collect the treasures.

In less than a quarter of an hour,

the treasures in the Divine Capital had been completely swept clean by him.

Surprisingly, there was even more than there had been in the Great Qin.

The gold, silver, and jewelry alone were worth 28 billion taels of silver, and other items combined were worth 15 billion taels.

"Off I go!"

The next moment, Chen Hu utilized Near and Far to depart.

Time flew by.

Morning arrived once again.

Through the sound transmission gu, Chen Hu learned that the military generals he had dispatched had successfully taken control of the other three branches of the Yellow Heaven Army.

After eating breakfast in the imperial palace,

Chen Hu went to attend the morning court session.

During today's morning court, he issued several more imperial edicts of conferment.

He conferred the title of Virtuous Noble Consort upon Liu Xiangyue; conferred the title of Virtuous Noble Consort upon Nangong Hongyan; conferred the title of Shu Noble Consort upon Luo Ningshuang and concurrently appointed her as the Commander of the Brocade Guard; and conferred the title of Virtuous Noble Consort upon Sun Lingyue.

During the barbecue banquet last night, Chen Hu had asked Sun Lingyue if she was willing to continue serving in the Brocade Guard.

However, she was unwilling.

Since she was unwilling, Chen Hu did not force her.

After conferring titles upon the four noble consorts, Chen Hu appointed Dian Wei as the Grand Commander of the Imperial Guard,

Zhao Yun as the General Conquering the East, and Huang Zhong as the General Conquering the South.

While the eunuch was reading the imperial edicts, Chen Hu used the loyalty cards to enslave the other two dukes as well as the Minister of Personnel.

Originally, among the military generals, Marquis Weiwu held the greatest power.

However, since that fellow was already dead, the ones with the most power were Duke Chen and Duke Liang.

The remaining two dukes also held a certain degree of power and prestige, but they were far inferior to the other two.

As for the civil officials, Prime Minister Xie held the greatest influence,

followed by the Minister of Personnel, Gao Wen.

Once these two were controlled, seven or eight out of ten civil official factions would be under his command.

After the imperial edicts of conferment were finished being read,

Chen Hu gave Prime Minister Xie a look, and the other party immediately understood and stepped forward, presenting a memorial to establish a cabinet.

Chen Hu took the memorial handed up by the eunuch, feigned looking through it, and directly granted the request.

He then ordered Prime Minister Xie to draft a list of cabinet ministers for him.

Following that, after handling a few miscellaneous matters, Chen Hu announced the end of the court session.

Returning to the Imperial Study,

Chen Hu looked at the mountain of memorials and couldn't help but feel a headache.

He picked up a memorial at random and began to flip through it.

After patiently finishing the memorial, Chen Hu was speechless, because over ninety percent of this memorial was utter nonsense.

Only the last few sentences of the memorial mentioned actual business.

Subsequently, Chen Hu read through several more memorials, and they were all the same.

With a thought,

Chen Hu directly used his Divine Sense to scan all the memorials on the imperial desk.

Then, he closed his eyes and browsed through the contents of these memorials.

Before long,

Chen Hu opened his eyes and began to review these memorials.

Half an hour later,

the review was complete.

Chen Hu let out a heavy sigh.

He thought to himself that being an emperor was not an easy task.

Just then,

a eunuch came in to report: "Your Majesty, the Minister of Rites, Wei Shanhe, requests an audience."

"Summon him!"

Chen Hu said.

Soon, the Minister of Rites, Wei Shanhe, arrived at the Imperial Study and bowed respectfully.

"Minister Wei, you have come to see Me, what is the matter?"

Chen Hu said playfully, because this Wei Shanhe was the younger brother of Marquis Weiwu, Wei Zhenjiang.

Out of curiosity, Chen Hu activated his Eye of Insight to check the other party's identity and cultivation information.

The other party was a civil official, but his cultivation was not weak, having reached the Mid Organ-Refining Realm.

Strangely, even though he was the murderer who killed Wei Zhenjiang, Wei Shanhe's loyalty actually stood at 74 points.

But after a moment of thought, he understood what was going on.

In the face of Family interests, what did the feud of a brother amount to?

Moreover, Chen Hu had displayed the strength of a Hunyuan Martial Saint; even if the Wei Family wanted revenge, they lacked the power to do so.

If they wanted to preserve the Wei Family, there was only one path: to desperately curry favor with him, the new emperor.

"Your Majesty, you have newly ascended the throne, and the inner palace is empty. Should we hold a selection to fill the inner palace?" Wei Shanhe said cautiously.

"No need!"

Chen Hu waved his hand. Although he loved beauty, he was not a stud horse, and he already had five women at the moment.

No, that's six.

There was still the Saintess of the Holy Moon Sect, Luoyan, who had given her purity to him.

She had left Linjiang Prefecture previously and seemed to have mentioned coming to the royal capital.

"Alright, if there is nothing else, you may withdraw!" Chen Hu said.

"Yes, this subject will take his leave!"

A flash of disappointment crossed Wei Shanhe's eyes; he had originally wanted to use the selection to insert his own daughter into the inner palace.

His own daughter had been nurtured quite well; not only was she proficient in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, but her martial cultivation had also reached the Bone Refining Realm.

After dismissing Wei Shanhe, Chen Hu spread his Divine Sense to shroud the royal capital.

Soon, he locked onto Luoyan, who was in a brothel, through his Divine Sense.

Sensing her, there was no other man's scent on Luoyan besides his own.

This meant Luoyan had not cheated on him.

Otherwise, he would have slaughtered the Holy Moon Sect.

After all, he had used a loyalty card on Luoyan, so she herself could not possibly betray him.

But even if she wouldn't betray him, she might be forced by people from the Holy Moon Sect.

"Whoosh!"

A figure flashed.

Chen Hu appeared in Luoyan's room.

"Who?"

Luoyan was startled, but upon seeing Chen Hu's face, she was overjoyed: "Master!"